Joy Denalane
Joy Maureen Dena Lane [ Dinala ː ni ] ( born June 11, 1973 in Berlin -Schöneberg ) is a German soul and R & B singer, combines the arrangements of Anglo-American and African music with German lyrics.
- 4.1 albums
- 4.2 Singles
Private
Dena Lane grew up in the Kreuzberg district. She was the third of six children and was named Joy ( "Joy "). The father, a South African, had while studying in Germany in Dena Lanes mother, a Heidelbergerin, in love and stayed in Germany. Dena Lane moved with 16 years of your home, made with 22 years of her high school and devoted himself to music.
Joy Dena Lane lives with her two sons in Berlin- Charlottenburg. In February 2007 Dena Lane and her husband, the musician Max Herre parted. Musically they remained connected together and took care of the education of her sons. In the winter semester 2009/10 studied Dena Lane for a semester German, English and General and Comparative Literature at the University of Berlin.
In March 2011, Dena Joy Lane and Max Herre announced that they have found each other again.
Musical career
My boyfriend at the time convinced Dena Lane at age 19 to an audition, which helped her to engagements as a singer in the reggae and soul bands "Culture Roots" and " Family Affair ". A little later, the first record deal as Solointerpretin, but it should prove to be a big disappointment, since you let Dena Lane no musical freedoms and wanted to make them a pop musician. This agreement eventually led to Stuttgart, where Dena Lane first collaboration with the well-known producer DJ Thomilla and deep black and the song Music wrote.
At the time held the hip-hop band "Friends " for her duet with you for a suitable singer out and found it in Dena Joy Lane. This love song was a summer hit of 1999. Buddies frontman Max Herre was Dena Lanes friend.
Then broke Dena Lane contracts with their record company and toured two years with the band. It was part of the " FK Allstars ", which included, among other things beside Friends Afrob, Gentleman, Sekou, Deborah of " Sens Unik " and Brooke Russell. The joint tour, the live album En Directo was born. In 2001, she signed with the help of a contract in Herre " Four Music ", the record company of " Fantastic Four " in which also "Friends " was at that time under contract.
Debut album Mamani
Dena Lane decided to publish a soul record on German as the language has defined by their encounters with many German MCs new for them. Dena Lane began work on their debut album, on which they wanted to represent their South African roots. She was supported by her friend and producer Max Herre, as well as the co- producer Don Philippe, Frank Kuruc, Tommy Wittinger and Tom Kruger.
After the birth of her first son Dena Lane traveled to South Africa to explore their origins and the history of their family and the country. There Dena Lane also won the support of many African musicians for her album, such as the jazz musician Hugh Masekela. Processed back in Germany Dena Lane impressions of the journey to the songs Setho, she sings in the South African language Xhosa, Mamani (mother, grandmother, or female ancestor ) on Tsonga, which she dedicated to her mother, the dirge Mathatha Agotlokamna with the Mahotella Queens and the ghetto of Soweto. This song is divided into three stanzas, forming a cross- sectional view of the recent South African history. It is from apartheid, the student uprising in Soweto and the pass laws up to the present and AIDS. The music is funky, with an African background choir. Hugh Masekela plays trumpet in the piece.
For her son Dena Lane sings the children's song, and high time, in Who's the world she sings of discrimination Black and women, and in the play Four women interprets Nina Simone's Four Women with Sara Tavares from the Cape Verde Islands, Chiwoniso Maraire from Zimbabwe and friends - singer Deborah new. For her father took her on a cover of Billie Holiday 's classic I Cover the Waterfront.
On Joy Dena Lanes album, there are also classic love songs like Miscommunication, the old-school piece of Whatever and the separation blues go now. Tell me was Delananes first single. Mamani, which was released on 3 June 2002, debuted at number eight on the German album charts.
Tours and honors
Joy Dena Lane completed three sold-out tours. She was called " mistress to soul and hip-hop " (Hamburger Evening Journal) and "Queen of German Soul" (Focus). They worked with Youssou N'Dour together, went to the jazz trumpeter Till Bronner on tour, giving concerts in New York and Philadelphia, and was a guest on German television and radio broadcasts. She won a Comet in the category "Best Hiphop / R & B National " and received three nominations echo.
In 2003 Dena Lane went on " Acoustic Tour ," accompanied by three musicians Dalma Lima ( percussion), Frank Kuruc (guitar) and Fontaine Burnett ( bass). On 11 March 2004 Dena Joy Lane gave a concert in Berlin's Palace of Tears. It was supported alongside her musician trio of brothers Matteo (drums) and Lillo Scrimali (keyboards ) and Sebastian Studnitzky (trumpet ). This acoustic set was recorded and released in the fall of 2004 as a live album and DVD.
Born & Raised
After the DVD - recording Joy Dena Lane began work on her second studio album Born & Raised, whose songs she presented in summer 2005 on the Club Tour " For the Love Tour". The album was released on 11 August 2006, the first single is called Let Go. Unlike Mamani it contains only English-language songs.
In April 2006 Dena Lane, Max Herre, Götz Gottschalk and Sophie Raml founded a new label called " Nesola " (Esperanto: " not alone" ).
In September 2006, she performed in the Potsdam Nikolaisaal with the German Film Orchestra Babelsberg under the direction of Scott Lawton.
In the spring of 2007, published Dena Joy Lane Change the single with Lupe Fiasco in the UK. She joined in 2007 at various festivals in the United Kingdom, Japan and South Africa. Change did not make it into the British charts.
The Dresden Soul Symphony
In November 2008, Dena Joy Lane joined with singers Tweet, Dwele and Bilal on together with the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the MDR- Children's Choir and other accompanying musicians in Dresden Soul Symphony.
Maureen
On 20 May 2011 appeared Delananes fourth studio album, Maureen. Preliminary, they already took some of the songs live on, among others, Max Herre as a guest, and published them as a video sessions on the Internet. Maureen is named after Joy Delananes middle name. The first single was released as No rap version on the CD of the magazine Juice. Joy Dena Lane took Maureen in Berlin and Philadelphia, among others with producer Steve McKie ( Jill Scott), bassist Tony Whitfield ( Bilal ), the Ghostface and T. I. producers Jake One and Jazmine Sullivan -songwriter Anthony Bell. An English version of the album was released a year later.
Anti- AIDS commitment
Through their commitment to the fight against AIDS and their support of " Wola Nani ", a South African organization that helps women with AIDS by selling their handmade, 2003, the " German AIDS Help" on Joy Dena Lane was attentive; as a result, she became the face of the campaign " exclusion makes you sick ."